Category: Historical Novels
[_Scene._ A tent on the open shores of Lake Superior—a camp-fire—canoes turned up on the beach—boatmen engaged in cooking. A conference at the tent-door. Ethwald, a traveller. Oscar, a missionary. De la Joie, a trader. Mongazid (Azid), an Indian Prophet and hunter, with his re...
As spoke the chief of waning fate, And foeman’s ire, and spirit’s hate, And hurried on through martial feats, And routs, and battles, and defeats, No tremor weak, or muscle’s th...
5. CANTO V.Who is Elohim? who? I said— The vision broke—the angel fled. Dread on my ear these accents broke, And high—it seemed a god who spoke— His features, as my race he drew, Assumed a...
1. CANTO I.[_Scene._ A tent on the open shores of Lake Superior—a camp-fire—canoes turned up on the beach—boatmen engaged in cooking. A conference at the tent-door. Ethwald, a traveller. O...
3. CANTO III.The fire shone bright on rift and wall, Within Alhalla’s cavern-hall; And oft had that lone maid, his pride, With splinter’d pine the flame supplied, And kindly spread, with rea...
2. CANTO II.THE golden sun with early ray, Saw Ethwald on his ocean way, With silent Azid for his guide, And mission-father by his side: His birchen vessel light and gay Speeds swan-like o’...
4. CANTO IV.The sun went down that fatal night, Not as it wont, in glory bright, But veil’d in clouds of sombre trace, Prophetic of my falling race. I stood upon a rising ground, As darknes...